Of all the women in the life of Ted Hughes, his second wife, Carol, spent more
time with him than any other. Yet for more than 40 years she has kept her
silence, never once joining in the furious debate that has raged around the
late Poet Laureate since the suicide of his first wife, the poet Sylvia
Plath.

Now, in a surprising departure from her previous reticence, she has revealed
that she is to write a memoir of her marriage to Hughes, which lasted from
1970 to his death in 1998.